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Nine countries including South Africa, Namibia, and Chile formed the Hague Group to hold Israel accountable for its crimes

Campus rally supports undocumented classmates after white nationalist-aligned club targets them

The new head of the U.S. Department of Transportation issued sweeping memos this week, directing the department to “identify and eliminate” nearly all initiatives relating to climate change, racial equity, gender identity, DEI or environmental justice implemented during the Biden administration.

Deif was one of several top commanders assassinated by Israeli Occupation Forces, and had “exhausted the enemy for more than 30 years”

• The Center Square: Federal employees reportedly told to remove pronouns from email signatures.

Kyrgyzstan has outlawed the all-covering Islamic niqab. Authorities insists the ban does not extend to the hijab, the Islamic headscarf that has long been outlawed in schools and offices in all other Central Asian countries.

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The chatbot refused to answer some queries, erased its replies or answered differently depending on language.

TL;DR: Chinese LLMs (including DeepSeek) are trained on my illegal archive of books and papers — the largest in the world. The West needs to overhaul copyright law as a matter of national security.

The future of AI innovation may hinge on the outcome of a global copyright debate. In the U.S., rightsholders are taking a hard line, pursuing legal action against AI companies that utilize copyrighted works without permission. However, other countries are adopting more lenient approaches, allowing AI models to learn from the vast troves of data found in 'pirate' libraries. This 'copyright schism' could have far-reaching consequences.